 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro...  The Poetical Works - Side 18af Alexander Pope - 1828Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 sider
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, " Feels at each thread, and lives along the line," * Note (P p.) The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations... | |
 | 1817 - 314 sider
...powers ascends: Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...vernal wood.; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine 1 Feels at each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 sider
...powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass; What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The tpider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ' In the nice... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 sider
...ascends; Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider s touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 sider
...ascends : Mark, how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, The...the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along... | |
 | 1817 - 494 sider
...his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. SPENSER. t The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. POPE. maimed or bruised, and a new limb is gradually formed. Like some of the crabs, lobsters are said1... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 sider
...prey being at hand, when it rushes out and seldom fails to secure its .victim. \ .. • • • * " The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." JVT. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp Carried off and destroyed by one of these species,... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 sider
...the Icq, and serves it to adhere to the threads of the web. The web is wonderful in its formation. " The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine '. Feels at each thread, and lives along the iim-. POPE'S ESSAV ON MA-/. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 sider
...nature, in which every epithet is a decisive touch, as, From the green myriads in the peopled grass, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. His picture of the dying pheasant is in every one's memory, and possibly the lines of his winter piece... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 sider
...green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the Hood, To that which warhles through the vernal woodl The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line; ln the nice hee, what ssnre so suhtly true, From poisonous herhs extraets the healing dew 1 220 I low... | |
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